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Finding Aid for the Papers of ELIZABETH MARSH
JENSEN, 1912-1989.Coll. No. 115416 document boxes and 6 packages (11 linear
ft. Haverford College Library
Special CollectionsHaverford, PA 19041Papers of Quaker Elizabeth Marsh Jensen who
worked for the American Friends Service Committee in several capacities,
notably with her husband, Daniel Jensen, in Mexico to assist Spanish Civil War
refugees from 1940-41. She was also a businesswoman who successfully ran a
ranch in Colorado and was known for her hospitality and friendship.

Coll. no. 1154

Biographical Note

Elizabeth Marsh Jensen (1900-1999), daughter of Fred and Ivy Crites
Marsh, was born in Nebraska. She graduated from Nebraska Central College (which
merged in ca. 1963 with William Penn College), taught school in Nebraska,
1918-1922, and received a Master's in Economics from Haverford College in 1925.
A Quaker, she was a member of Nebraska Yearly Meeting (see Nebraska Yearly
Meeting folder dated La Grange, WY, 1979). She served in Five Years Meeting of
Friends (now Friends United Meeting), and as Young Friends Secretary from
1925-1930. She worked toward the establishment of an adult Quaker study center
near Philadelphia, Pendle Hill, in 1930, and served on its Board until
marriage, but continued on committees thereafter. After her marriage to Daniel
Jensen in 1935, they established the T-Box ranch near Fort Morgan, Co. where
their daughter Karen was born in 1936.

Jensen worked for the American Friends Service Committee in several
capacities: as Home Service and Personnel Director, 1930-1935, Personnel
Director again in 1948. Jensen and her husband served in Mexico for two years,
1940-1941, working with Spanish Civil War refugees, and returned to Colorado in
1941. She worked for A.F.S.C. in Richmond, Indiana for four months to solicit
gifts in kind (grain, potatoes, tomatoes, etc.) in 1946; and in Philadelphia,
helping to find staff to work with Palestinian refugees on the Gaza Strip in
the late 1940s. Jensen worked for the Des Moines office of A.F.S.C. (at least
in 1958). She served on the National A.F.S.C. and Des Moines A.F.S.C. Board
beginning in 1967.

In 1949, the family moved west again, setting up the Double Slash J
Ranch where innumerable visitors found hospitality. She served as a delegate to
Friends World Committee in 1967 and held many offices in local organizations.
Jensen received an honorary doctorate from William Penn University. She often
referred to herself as a "ranch wife".

Daniel Jensen (1893-1971) attended Wesleyan University and worked in
several capacities for the YMCA. After 1929, he started in the ranching
business. He also worked for AFSC for two years among Spanish refugees in
Mexico, 1940-41. He served as YMCA secretary in Omaha, Chicago, Monterey, and
Mexico.

(Biographical information from registration forms for the Fourth
Friends World Conference, 1967; In Memoriam for
Daniel Jensen; EMJ obituary in Friends Journal,
February, 2000; and other internal evidence)

Correspondence, diaries, articles and speeches relating to the service
work and interests of Elizabeth Marsh Jensen in particular, as well as of her
husband, Daniel Jensen.

Collection includes biographical information about EMJ (including
EMJ's own summary description of her life written in 1987), and her work,
beginning as a teacher, and especially her work for the American Friends
Service Committee in the U.S. and Mexico. Materials document the Jensens' life
and work on ranches in Colorado and Wyoming, and her political activism.
Included is material on the period in 1928 which EMJ spent at the Quaker adult
study center in England (Woodbrooke) and at the Quaker adult study center in
America (Pendle Hill). The collection documents her work as representative to
several Quaker organizations, such as Nebraska Yearly Meeting, Friends
Committee on National Legislation and her activities with the Quaker Young
Friends group.

Materials in boxes are arranged in five series: biographical (box 1);
articles & other writings and addresses (box 2); correspondence (boxes
3-10); and topical (boxes 11-16); diaries are in six packages.

The collection was received arranged primarily by topics, and to the
extent possible, this arrangement has been preserved. Elizabeth Marsh Jensen's
diaries are located adjacent to the boxes.

Special notes: EMJ is used throughout for Elizabeth Marsh Jensen.
Other abbreviations are AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), DJ (Daniel
Jensen).

In all cases, there are full descriptions for the content of each
folder. Though not all letter writers are listed individually, those that are
brought out are done so on the basis of content of the letter or historical
importance of the letter writer.

Box 2Articles and Other Writings and Addresses by
EMJArticles and Addressess Written by EMJ,
1920s (bulk
1920s-1930s)-1980s.1 folder.

Topics include: Race relations, Quaker "spiritual giants",
Mexico, World friendship, Friends, Christianity, AFSC, Military, Religious
work, German crisis, Futility of war, Conscientious objectors' service, Peace
training for leadership, Women (in typescript and holograph ms.); also 2
letters to EMJ on these topics and newsletters and other printed materials from
which she took quotes for these topics.

Young Friends Addresses,
ca. 1920s-1930s.1 folder.

Ms. and Ts. notes for talks. Mostly undated.

Writings of EMJ in The American
Friend, 1925-1930.1 folder.

On Young Friends matters (printed).

Letters re Addressess by EMJ,
1950s-1960s.1 folder.

Primarily 1950s, but also 1960s, letters are in appreciation for
her talks and show the nature of her interests. ca. 20 items.

Notes for Some Addresses by EMJ,
1950s-1960s.1 folder (ca. 20 items).

Primarily 1950s but also 1960s, these are holograph notes with
titles (on Japanese, work with AFSC, Quakerism, World Community Day, peace,
travels, prisons, Mexico, Korea, Palestine, war, social creeds, faith and
practice, George Fox, Rufus Jones, Africa, Christianity) and locations of EMJ
talks.

Writings by EMJ.1 folder.

Including letters to the editor and editorial clippings from
newspapers.

[references to Young Friends, Yearly Meetings and many
references to well-known Quakers]

to Mary Elliott Edmondsen. Nurnberg to Buckeberg,
1928 7/26.

[describes her trip from America, Meeting for Worship, travel
through England and then Germany]

to Olive Alexander.
1930 7/19.

[Woodbrooke memories and reunion; Young Friends from 10 Yearly
Meetings met and shortly will have a conference of which she is manager]

to Ruth Outland Maris.
1931 3/19.

[reports on field trips for AFSC as Home Service volunteer,
including 87 personal interviews]

to Margaret D. Webb.
1932 3/12.

[prominent Quaker women of the day]

to Wilhelm Hubben.
1933 2/4.

[responds to his letter describing situation in Germany;
enormous amount of activity of AFSC, including coal work]

to M. Kiser, E. Linton, R. Outland & C.
Cunningham.
1933 4/13.

[in Germany Wilhelm Hubben's school dissolved, Hans Albrecht's
salary cut, Corder Catchpool arrested, persecution against liberals severe, as
it is against Jews; attaches a letter from Johannes Schwagen and wife with a
proposal for German Friends to consider]

to Olive Alexander.
1934 2/28.

[Peace and Home Service Sections of AFSC have been
experimenting with Quaker pacifist technique in conflict situations in social
and economic areas. -- the peace caravaners have concentrated particularly on
international relations -- and thinking of establish a Peace Work Camp]

to John and Ruth.
1935.

[announces plans to marry Daniel Jensen]

to Daniel [Jensen]. [Mexico],
1940 5/9.

[Sr. Prieto is said to be ready to save refugees "abandoned"
by Dr. Puche's outfit, providing them with living quarters, health services,
etc.; other daily events] +

to Daniel [Jensen]. [Mexico],
1940 5/12.

[rumors that left-wing Spaniards are mobilizing in France to
be back into Spain] +

to Suzanne [Sein].
1941 4/28.

[pleased response to Sein's feeling that work should be
continued in Mexico by Friends and description of some of the work]

to "dear Friends".
1941 6/15.

[re Domingo Ricart; the Spanish migration to Mexico in the
past two years was significant for Mexico, in cultural & spiritual terms]
+

to Mary Hoxie [Jones]. Richmond, Indiana,
1946 5/28.

[spends her time in meeting with Yearly or Quarterly Meeting
groups]

to Danny Kaye. La Grange, Wy.,
1954 3/24.

[criticizing one of his programs while appreciating him in
general]

Letters of EMJ to her Family from Europe,
1928, 1954 and 1958.1 folder (13 items).

Including about Woodbrooke, representing Friends, peace
issues.

Annual Jensen Newscasts,
1930-1979 (with
gaps).1 folder.

Duplicated Christmas letters giving family news of Elizabeth,
Daniel and Karen written in the form of radio announcements; 1 EMJ Christmas
card.

Letters of EMJ to her Family,
1941-1942.1 folder (50 items).

Carbon copies of typescript letters from Ft. Morgan, Co. about
ranch life and thoughts on issues.

Letters of EMJ to her Family,
1943-1944.1 folder (41 items).

Carbon copies of typescript letters from Ft. Morgan, Co. about
ranch life and thoughts on issues.

Letters of EMJ to her Family,
1945-1947.1 folder (22 items).

Carbon copies of typescript letters from Ft. Morgan, Co. about
ranch life and thoughts on issues.

Letters of EMJ to her Family and others,
1960-1970s.1 folder (4 items).

Carbon copies of typescript letters from La Grange, Wyo.

Box 4Elizabeth Marsh Jensen Correspondence with Members of
Congress, Presidents, or other Government Representatives,
1945-1983

Arranged alphabetically by government official, except where
Jensen's letters were not answered, filed under Jensen.

Many of the letters in this series are thank you notes from
visitors, including those who want work experience on the Jensens' ranch, that
speak to the Jensens' generosity or offer tidbits from the letter writer's
personal life. Quite a number are on AFSC matters, especially personnel. The
letters are all arranged alphabetically by last name of the letter writer;
those highlighted below were chosen for significant content, historical
importance of the letter writer or as providing evidence of EMJ's
activities.

[program of Hominy Friends on behalf of Native Americans.
Paul Pitts, a Quaker Osage chief is clerk of the Monthly Meeting in Kansas; in
Wyandotte, pastors offer religious education classes for about 100 of the 178
Indian Government School children; hopes Jensens can visit the four centers of
Oklahoma Indian work they are operating (2/3/61); Committee and pastors are
cooperating]

[about new journal, The Quest,
published by Young Friends (1930); Germany Emergency work (1935);
working to help Germans and Austrians who wish to be repatriated (1947)] +

Branson, Julia.
1950-54.8 items.

[there seems to be some interest in applying for government
funding for an AFSC project in India; other personnel news from AFSC]

Breder, Golse. Oslo,
1930 11/1.

[reunion of some people who met at Woodbrooke]

Bristol, James E.
1953-71.5 items.

[working for AFSC and with AFSC support toward repeal of the
draft as the national organizer of the National Council to Repeal the Draft
(1970)]

Brown, Elvira.
1973. copy of AFSC Standing Nominating
Committee minutes (EMJ a member of the committee)Buchinger, Hans. Germany,
1929-39 & n.d. 8 items. (EMJ
identifies Buchinger as a fellow Woodbrooker who was exiled by the Nazis to the
U.S.; he had a Jewish grand[father]; taught at Earlham).

[life in his small community of Witzenhausen and studies at
Göttingen(1929); one of his professors is Mommsen, son of the famous historian;
Germany's passive resistance to the occupation of the Ruhr district in 1923 and
the devaluation of the Mark; all students now obliged to become members of an
organization; after the war "marvelous recuperative power of our nation... from
utter apathy caused by starvation and exhaustion to the heights of world-wide
enterprise" (1930) +; anxious to join "peace caravans" (1931); farmers in
Germany prefer Nazis and the von Papen party, import of grain unnecessary
(1932)] +

[AFSC relief work in Austria, the February civil war when
the Dollfuss government attacked the Socialists to whom AFSC also offered
relief, now seeking to join with a group of Jews who would contribute to
relief, including to Austrian Nazis (this is a copy of a letter to Rabbi
Abraham Cronback, Feb. 1, 1935)] +

[quotes (Kennedy): "...if we can in every land and office
look beyond our own shores and ambitions -- then surely the age will dawn in
which the strong are just and weak secure and the peace preserved", a response
to Jensen's letter of approval for Kennedy's UN speech]

Durgin, Margaret.
1951.

[re Rebecca Osborn & her husband and the Hellburns who
work toward acceptance of conscientious objectors in Montana]

[on a variety of personnel issues, in some instances
responding to EMJ's suggestions of new personnel, including: urgent need for
additional top-level personnel in Palestine and German (Nov. 22, 1949)]

AFSC (Elizabeth Marsh Jensen).
n.d.

[typed note stating the nature of her work for AFSC and that
Jensen's AFSC correspondence is in AFSC files]

AFSC (Howard McKinney).
1952-1956.7 items

[would EMJ consider a visit to the work camp on the Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation and that the Executive Comm. of the Tribal Council said they
were interested in a recreation program for children as well as construction of
shelters where children wait for the school bus; includes description of some
work accomplished at Pine Ridge] (EMJ responds with interest in visiting)

AFSC (Matilda Michener). Denver, Co.,
1956 1/29.

[on starting a Friends' Colorado Committee of the AFSC]

AFSC (Florine Miller).
1951-1956.3 items.

[responds to request for information about bringing a
displaced person's family to U.S.; refugee program "about over" (1956)]

AFSC (Sumner Mills).
1952-1978.5 items.

[thanks EMJ for persuading him to undertake new job at
AFSC]

AFSC (Hugh Moore).
1949-1958.4 items.

[1958 letter relates to work of EMJ in the Des Moines office
of AFSC]

AFSC (Edward B. Peacock). Philadelphia,
1949 11/18.

[indications that UN will take on work in Palestine (sic),
already requesting assistance of AFSC reps.] +

[overwhelmed by work for which general secretary (of Friends
General Conference) is responsible (1951)]

Edwards, Sara.
1950.

[Chicago department stores beginning to change policy on the
hiring of African Americans]

Elkinton, Howard W.
1938.

[gloomy reports from Prinz Louis Ferdinandstr., "but a visit
with His Excellency Herr Diethoff the ambassador at Washington may augur
well"]

Elkinton, J. Passmore and Anna.
1935-1971.6 items.

[memories of EMJ (1971)

Elkinton, Katharine Mason.
1937.

[description of the 20th anniversary celebration of the
A.F.S.C.]

Emerson, Elizabeth.
1951.

[working on a biography of Walter Woodward]

Emmons, James.
1967.

[a student at Haverford College with experience building a
community center for a Spanish-American community, he is interested in a job at
the Jensen ranch]

Estal, H. Martyn Colombo, [Sri Lanka],
1929.

[description of native population; little new conversion
from Buddhism to Christianity; "India knows that she will not follow Gandhi,
that the price is too great"; Jaffna? students' congress in progress with their
attitude towards caste]

[thanks EMJ for support of FUM's conscientious objector
program as with the change in draft law to a volunteer status, the need for the
program diminished; their current program puts COs where there is a special
need]

Fry, Joan Mary.
1941-1952.6 items.

[has been making flat needlebooks to send with letters to
Germany & Holland as needles so difficult to get (1946)]

[thanks for care package; describes members of her family
and that her husband was taken prisoner at the end of the war; they are
Quakers]

Heusel, Lorton. Richmond, Ind.,
1968-1973.2 items.

[new structure of Friends United Meeting]

Hiatt, Mary Lane.
1971.

[biographical account of her husband, Burritt Mills
Hiatt]

Hughes, John. Zorzor, Liberia,
1961 1/3.

[a description of the place where he was to take up a
teaching post obtained through the State Department]

IIllowy, Paul, Vienna,
1934 4/30.

[Austrians all feel they are by nationality German, though
many despise Hitler, and there is nothing like an Austrian nation; since the
February revolt, nobody dares express views loudly if opposed to the
government] +

Box 8J-OJJacob, Alfred. Germany, Spain & England,
1930-33.5 items.

[Re Germany: "No casual observer can see the signs of
suffering"; Gilbert & Gordon Bowles (Berlin, 12-24-30); why edict that
there can be no political demonstrations, 4 million unemployed (Berlin,
12-25-30); heard Rabindranath Tagore read his poems at Woodbrooke] +

Jackson, Elmore.
1930s 1947 & n.d.3 items.

[he is a true pagan; on love and other emotions,
rationalism, communism (10/20/1930s?); refers to Jensens' selling their
Colorado ranch and buying a ranch in Wyoming & EMJ taking a 2-year position
with AFSC in the place of Louis Schneider (10/10/1947)]

[crisis of mails in Palestine; situation has grown worse
since announcement of Partition; some of the worst aspects of Nazism haunt the
land; panic about British forces leaving upon whom barbarous acts have been
done; Hagannah are shooting from a colony on the way to Jerusalem; Middle East
has lost faith in America (1948)] +

Jones, Margaret.
1950-84.5 items.

[various issues at AFSC; Helen Bryan due to go to prison
over Spanish refugees whom she is helping & the House Un-American
Activities Committee (1950); would like to visit Jensen in Wyoming and give
talks about the UN and is worried about increasing anti-Semitism (1957)]

[refugees from all over eastern Europe and thousands of
German Jews are in the Middle East; life is comfortable there, though prices
high; cannot go home until Holocaust is over; property he owns in Colorado
(1942); son is a C.O. at Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp in N.H. but feels
his testimony against war will only be served if he leaves the camp, knowing he
might face a prison sentence]

[customs of acknowledgment in Kenya; cannot now send
clothing to East Africa]

Rhoads, Grace. Paraguay,
1952.

[is a member of the Society of Brothers and training
Paraguayan girls in house work]

Ricart, Domingo. Woodbrooke, Birmingham, [Engl.],
1941 1/28.

[concerned about spiritual needs in Spanish America; will be
working for Am. Board of Missions in Mexico; Jensens friends with poet Jose
Carner]

Rich, John F.
1968-1972.2 items.Ritter, Patricia.
1969-1973.3 items..

[David Scull's new African program "Partners for
Productivity"]

Riggs, Ellen R.
1928.

[report of the 1928 reunion of the Eerde (Holland)
conference of peace workers and the current situation in Europe]

Robert, S.L. India,
1930.2 items.

[current situation in India; Gandhi leading figure again in
politics and having confidence of the people, and carrying on civil
disobedience by breaking the Salt Law, agitation for independence; boycott of
foreign cloth; marriage customs] +

[describes his pneumonia; question why Mission Board owns
the forest around them; had Bush School teachers refresher course, more of the
good Bush schools run by Quaker missions; gold mining and race relations] +

Salzer, Tom. Sanct Poelten, Austria,
1935 11/29.

[father elected vice president of chamber of industries in
Austria; half of all young men either in jail or out of work and everyone
speaks of war] +

EMJ served on the board of the Iowa, later North Central,
regional office of AFSC. Primarily correspondence, mostly to EMJ, arranged
alphabetically. Concerns EMJ's work for and issues of the regional office,
particularly personnel issues; relationship of AFSC and Society of Friends;
some confidential. Correspondents include: Garnet Guild, Cecil Hinshaw, Rupert
Stanley, Wilmer Tjossem, Mike Yarrow. Also includes newsletters, memoranda,
minutes, attenders list, copy of petition to Dwight D. Eisenhower on
disarmament in 1957.

AFSC - Philadelphia,
1980-86.1 folder.

Five letters to EMJ, including from Asia Bennett and Mel Zuck,
1983-6; concise histories of AFSC by Edwin Bronner and Stephen Cary presented
at a Public Meeting with Haverford College Community, 1983; memoranda and
reports on AFSC topics.

AFSC - Program Priorities Committee,
1961-1967.1 folder.

Includes letter from Frank Hunt in 1964 indicating that EMJ
has been made a member of the Program Priorities Committee; recommendations for
priorities in 1963 - 1967 and funding allotments; 2 meetings' minutes; 1966-67
committee members. Some material marked "confidential"

AFSC - Special Committee on Organization and Relations
with Society of Friends,
1964-1974.1 folder.

Gilbert White was chair of this committee, EMJ a committee
member. Included are minutes, 1964-67 (probably not complete, some
confidential), notes taken by EMJ, letters to EMJ, including from Dorothy
Collier, Barrett Hollister and Gilbert White, and other, related AFSC
information.

Armaments,
1986.1 folder.

2 copies of Friends Committee on National Legislation
documents concerning the cost of armaments.

Atlanta Friends Center,
1959-1972.1 folder.

Primarily letters to EMJ, 1959-68, as one of the members of
the National Advisory Committee for the Center from Elizabeth Hendricks,
Margaret Jones and John Yungblut in reference to purchase of a building which
would become Quaker House; Heberto Sein's visit to Atlanta; newsletters and
other information about Quaker House.

Cadbury, Henry J.,
1949.1 folder.

Copy of a presentation made by Henry Cadbury in court in
January, 1949, on behalf of a young man being tried for civil disobedience in
refusing to fight. 1 item.

Letters and memos to EMJ who served on the Central Committee
for Conscientious Objectors from Lyle Tatum and George Willoughby; other
related information.

Cuba,
1963.1 folder.

A note by EMJ laid in: "In 1941 EMJ was asked by AFSC to visit
Cuba, en route home from a year's work among Spanish refugees in Mexico, and
report to Phila. on conditions there, especially among Spaniards there. DJ had
to have surgery and could not make the journey from Mexico to the CO ranch
alone, so I did not go to Cuba". Letters and memos to EMJ from Colin Bell,
Cecil Evans, Barrett Hollister, George Loft and Mike Yarrow re an AFSC mission
to Cuba; minutes of an ad hoc committee on Cuba, and a statement of purpose of
such a mission.

Europe,
1954-1958.1 folder.

Letters to EMJ in 1954 re impending visit to Europe, and in
1958, EMJ's refusal to take oath against Communism in order to obtain passports
resulted in a letter from Senator Joseph O'Mahoney citing Paul Robeson as an
example of denial of passport. (See also EMJ diaries) +

Five Years Meeting and Friends United Meeting,
1953-1985.1 folder.

EMJ was a representative of Nebraska Yearly Meeting to Five
Years Meeting. Letters to EMJ from Errol Elliott, Herbert Huffman, Jack Kirk
and others on topics such as Quaker Life, projects
which EMJ supported financially and other topics, 1953-1985, 23 items;
unattributed "A Suggestion for Relationship to other Yearly Meetings of Friends
and to other Religious Groups" (Ts., 2 p.); program information for Five Years
Meeting, 1935 and 1955 (Ts.); copies of information produced by Five Years
Meeting and Friends United Meeting.

Freundschaftsheim und Bruderhof,
1949-1960s.1 folder.

Friendship House (Freundschaftsheim) in Germany was
established to study issues of peace, world order and human cooperation. Three
letters to EMJ, 1958-61, who supported FH; newsletters of FH, 1952-57 and of
Bruderhof, 1953, a friendship community in Paraguay; informational material,
including from Grace Rhoads.

Friends and Indians,
1962-1973.1 folder.

Correspondence, including EMJ to Sen. Milward Simpson, on the
need to compensate the Seneca for land confiscated from them; also matters
relating to the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. 6
items. Also some printed material re AECIA, newsletters (2 from Indian
Reservations) and clippings.

Letters and documents, including constitution & bylaws of
the Community House and play produced to raise money for the Community House in
the 1950s.

Inspirational.1 folder.

Primarily printed poems.

Farmer's Union,
1965-1985.1 folder (ca. 10 items).

Letters and short printed history of Farmers Union, including
information that EMJ and Daniel Jensen were on Farmers Union leadership team to
Colombia in 1963.

Wyoming Council for the Humanities,
1984 & n.d.1 folder (2 items).

Letters from Sen. Alan Simpson, and document describing
W.C.H.

Music Club on Bear Creek,
1957-1968.1 folder.

Musical performances in which EMJ participated (hymns) and in
which she was interested.

Cow-Belles,
1971 & n.d.1 folder.

Letters, show script, historical background of the group
founded in 1959, with EMJ a founding member in Goshen Co. Relates to the role
of ranch women in Wyoming during the 1950s and 1960s.

Box 13Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) - Home
Service and Work Camps (topical)Friends Committee on National Legislation,
1944-1986.1 folder.

EMJ served on the FCNL General Committee. Correspondence,
primarily letters to EMJ and DJ, 1944-1986, including from: Milton Hadley,
Edward F. Snyder, E. Raymond Wilson on such topics as the SALT II Treaty,
militarism, EMJ's service on the Committee; a statement of legislative policy
for FCNL, 1981; preparatory materials and minutes of the 1985 annual meeting
and a statement by Edward Snyder on behalf of AFSC and FCNL before the Senate
Judiciary Committee, 1979; FCNL Congress, 1982.

Friends General Conference and Friends World
Conference,
1967.1 folder.

Letters to EMJ re the planning of both these conferences;
photo of FWC attenders; EMJ's registration form for FWC which contains
biographical information;

Friends Homes, Inc.,
1975-1983.1 folder.

Primarily letters to EMJ regarding her interest in having a
part-time apartment at this retirement community in Greensboro, N.C., including
a brochure on the community.

Friends World Committee for Consultation,
1984-86.1 folder.

EMJ was a representative to FWCC from Nebraska Yearly Meeting
in 1986. Minutes and members of several committees in this period; outline for
a history of FWCC by Herbert Hadley marked "complete, but imperfect"; "Our trip
to the States from Mollie & Miguel Figuerola"; and miscellaneous other
information.

FWCC-American Section,
1945-1986.1 folder.

Except for a list of 1986 committee members and
representatives to FWCC (EMJ was on the Finance Committee), correspondence,
almost exclusively letters to EMJ, including from Edwin and Anne Bronner,
correspondence with FWCC Executive Secretary, Gordon M. Browne, Herbert Hadley,
Robert Rumsey, James Walker and others, often relating to personnel matters and
visits by well-known Friends.

FWCC-American Section Search Committee,
1973-80.

Includes letters from Barry & Kay Hollister, David Scull,
Hannah Stapler, some of which may be confidential; job description, some
minutes and other materials used in the search for a new Executive Secretary,
Section of the Americas. This person would replace Herbert Hadley. EMJ was a
member of the committee.

Home Service and Work Camps,
1933-1936.1 folder.

Report of Joseph Coble on his summer work at the Big Jim
Friends Mission in Oklahoma, May-August, 1935 and the response of his
supervisor, Ruthanna Simms (in typescript); duplicated nos. of serials: "The
American Work Camp", 1935, "Camp Robin", 1936, "Friends Service Camper", 1935,
"Home Service Robin", 1933-34. EMJ wrote for the latter.

Box 14Ivor, Ruth - Personnel (topical)Ivor, Ruth,
1949-1985.1 folder.

Primarily personal letters from Ivor, an artist, to EMJ,
including a report of anti-Semitism at the University of Colorado in 1949 and
EMJ's letter in support of Ivor. Some copies of clippings on/by Ivor.

Japan and Japanese Evacuees in the U.S.,
1942-50.1 folder (4 items).

Letters to EMJ, including (1942) from a Japanese evacuee
describing the situation in an internment camp and from Margaret Jones (1950)
on Friends in Japan; also a 1942 report by Homer and Edna Morris on the
Japanese Evacuation and Friends' work.

Korea,
1950s.1 folder.

1952 report by Jonathan Rhoads and Lewis Wadilove on Korea and
possible Friends' work there; 2 items of background information on Korea

Law of the Sea,
1978-80.1 folder.

Information on the Law of the Sea; possibly a report on the
New York Law of the Sea session indicates that EMJ attended, but at least was
interested.

MX Missile Episode,
1983.1 folder (8 items).

Correspondence, including EMJ letter to Major Walsh, 10/23/83,
about her outrage concerning proposed MX, and other letters on this topic,
1983, mostly facsimile.

Letters to EMJ about the status of her alma mater, the merger
of N.C.C. with William Penn College, fundraising and other issues, including
from William Penn College president, John Wagoner, informing EMJ that she would
receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from them in 1984; correspondents
also include earlier William Penn College president, Gus Turbeville.

Nebraska Yearly Meeting,
1962-1984.1 folder (15 items).

Letters to EMJ from members of NYM, especially Central City,
on issues relating to the Meeting, 1962-1984; "The History of Central City
(Neb.) Monthly Meeting, 1898-1908" (copy of Ts.)

Peace,
1950-1980.1 folder (ca. 15 items).

Letters to EMJ and Daniel Jensen from Esther Harlan, Sister
Paul Hirschboeck, Agnes Hole and Ralph Templin on Quaker and other peace
initiatives; also "The Report of the Peace Board of the Five Years Meeting of
Friends, 1945-1950".

Pendle Hill,
1931-1981.1 folder (ca. 100 items).

EMJ was an assistant secretary at Pendle Hill in the 1930s and
the bulk of the correspondence is from this period. Correspondence concerns
applications/admissions process, development, Domingo Ricart, rehabilitation
project in Penna. coal field areas (camps). Correspondents include: Anna and
Howard Brinton, Henry T. Hodgkin, Joseph E. Platt, Ed Sanders, Dan Wilson; also
some scattered minutes, by-laws [1941?] and other miscellaneous.

Personnel Lists,
1952-81.1 folder.

Lists of some meetings Jensen attended or committees on which
she served, there is also one letter from Wilmington College president, Samuel
Marble in 1958 and a copy of an AFSC memo.

Box 15Mexico and Spain (topical)Domingo Ricart.1 folder.

One letter signed by Ricart; mostly photocopies of Ricart's
articles on Friends and Hispanics; also offprint of his "Spanish Religious
Writings Read by Early Friends" from Quaker History,
v. 66, 1977, p. 98, including information on Juan de Valdes (ca.
1500-1541)).

Daniel and Elizabeth Marsh Jensen correspondence
relating to their work for AFSC in Mexico,
1934, bulk 1939.1 folder.

[sending Jewish colonists to Mexico and particular points
of interest to AFSC: settlement of German and Spanish refugees and establishing
good will between Mexico & the U.S.; new organization, Junta de Auxilio a
Refugiados Espanoles, claiming control over Spanish gold in Mexico]

Jensen, Daniel.
11/7/39.

[exploitation of forest resources by the Spanish
Colony]

Daniel and Elizabeth Marsh Jensen correspondence
relating to their work for AFSC in Mexico,
1940: A -
Jensen.1 folder.

N.B. Many of the letters written in Spanish have not been
read. In many cases, it was not clear whether Daniel or Elizabeth Marsh Jensen
was the writer.

["all Mexican things depend on politics" and would like to
come to U.S.]

Jensen.
1/3/41.

[Henry Cadbury on Spanish Ship Committee which could bring
in Communists and International Brigadists] +

Jensen.
1/8/41.

[in sympathy with Eleanor Roosevelt in her decision to
separate from Spanish Rescue Ship Committee] +

Jensen.
1/18/41.

[Spanish refugees and the new regime in Mexico]

Jensen.
1/27/41.

[(Indalecio) Prieto and funding for refugees and relief
workers in France; Mexico's leading scholar, Alfonso Reyes]

Daniel and Elizabeth Marsh Jensen letters to family
from Mexico and Colorado:
1940-1941.1 folder.Topics include: Jensens' life and work in Mexico,
political thoughts, individual cases relating to Spaniards in Mexico; return to
Colorado in February,
1941 and ranch life.Some highlights include:4/9/40.

[re AFSC work in Mexico, Jensens' major concern was for
the reuniting of divided Spanish families; lives of Spanish immigrants in
Mexico]

8/29/40.

[disagreement with Roosevelt's "undemocratic" compulsory
peace-time military drill; numbers of Spaniards in Mexico increased to 11,000;
many other details] +

[impressions of Mexico, including new Cortinez
administration, "mordida", new roads, etc.] +

Jensen.
2/23/42.

[suggestions for future AFSC work in Mexico include
working among and serving refugees, but also as conciliating agents; importance
of allowing Mexicans to play a role in the work]

Sein, Heberto.
1946-1977.2 items.

[group of Friends in Mexico City think it time to
establish a Monthly Meeting; U.N. organizing, establishing a Trustee Council
(1946); text of letter of Pres. Jimmy Carter re appeal for Colegio Cesar
Chavez]

Sein, Suzanne. Mexico,
1957 2/13.

[Seins have established Casa Sein for use by Friends and
friends ad young Friends while visiting Mexico and Mexican Friends Service
Comm. and ask Jensens to serve as directors]

Issues relating to fund raising for the new center at 15th
& Cherry Streets, including letters to EMJ, minutes, committee members and
a final report relating to the fund-raising appeal. Letter writers include Hugh
Middleton, Jonathan Rhoads and Allen White.

Pickett, Clarence E.1 folder.

Copy of Clarence Pickett's typed journal kept from Sept. to
Oct., 1938 during a trip to Nazi Germany and other European countries; also
copy of nos. 1-15 of Pickett's typed journal kept during a trip to various
countries, ca. 1950s; memorial meeting at Race Street Meeting, March, 1965 for
Clarence Pickett.

Reeves, Don,
1951-1953.1 folder.

Letters, some copies, of Reeves to his Aunt Elizabeth (Marsh
Jensen) from the midwest and about missionary work in the Philippines, his
desire to be a conscientious objector and problems dealing with attitudes
towards C. O.s

Scattered Friends,
1965-80.1 folder.

Invitations and programs sent by EMJ to Friends in the
sparsely-settled west to participate in a Friends and worship group, responses
from invitees, mailing list, possibly a presentation by EMJ at the meeting and
miscellaneous.

United Nations,
1946.1 folder (1 item).

Typescript poem by Heberto Sein on U.N. with annotation,
1946.

Weddings - Special Events (Quaker).1 folder.

Primarily wedding, but also other invitations

Wider Quaker Fellowship,
1967-1986.1 folder.

Letters, mostly copies, to EMJ in 1985-6, including from chair
Anne T. Bronner; a history of WQF on its 50th anniversary in 1986; reports,
newsletters, advertising.

Woodbrooke,
1928-1952.1 folder.

Includes notebook containing notes taken by EMJ while a
student at Woodbrooke in 1928; some poems and other writings received by EMJ
while at Woodbrooke; typescript of a play by Jolin Huang "China Tea: a Farce in
One Act"; lists and other connections with former Woodbrookers.

Young Friends,
1925-30.1 folder.

Typed transcript of interview with Elizabeth Marsh in 1957
about her activities in Young Friends; typed report of meeting of Young Friends
at home of William and Ella Firth in Go Home Bay [Can.], 1929; T.D.S. by EMJ on
her early years in Young Friends work, 1976.

Young Friends,
1928.1 folder.

Ts. of "Some Fundamentals", a talk given by Carl Health at
Young Friends Conference, Brussels, 1928; clippings of printed material about
Young Friends' conferences written by or about Elizabeth Marsh. Primarily
printed material about Young Friends Conferences in 1928. (According to AF
article enclosed, EMJ was supposed to be conference manager at Earlham Young
Friends, but her note suggests she was at the European Conference).